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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.8

CVE-2025-4748 json

Absolute path traversal in zip:unzip/1,2

published 2025-06-16 16 mo ago modified 2026-07-24 3 mo ago also EUVD-2025-18414

cvss
4.8
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib modules) allows Absolute Path Traversal, File Manipulation. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/stdlib/src/zip.erl and program routines zip:unzip/1, zip:unzip/2, zip:extract/1, zip:extract/2 unless the memory option is passed.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.0.1, OTP 27.3.4.1 and OTP 26.2.5.13, corresponding to stdlib from 2.0 before 7.0.1, 6.2.2.1 and 5.2.3.4.

Patch / fix

  • Erlang OTP 5.2.3.4, 6.2.2.1, 7.0.1, 26.2.5.13, 27.3.4.1, 28.0.1
  • erlang Debian 12 1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u2
  • erlang Debian 14, Debian 13 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-4748

  • erlang Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5
  • erlang Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu4.4
  • erlang Ubuntu 25.10 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1
  • erlang Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1+esm4
  • erlang Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1:20.2.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2+esm4
  • erlang Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-4748

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • erlang SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 27.1.3-160000.5.1
  • erlang SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 23.3.4.19-150300.3.23.3
  • erlang26 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 26.2.1-150300.7.14.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:22082-1SUSE-SU-2025:02332-1SUSE-SU-2025:02331-1

  • erlang openSUSE Leap 16.0 27.1.3-160000.5.1
  • erlang27 openSUSE Tumbleweed 27.1.3-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20907-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10947-1

  • erlang CBL-Mariner 2.0 25.3.2.21-2
  • erlang Azure Linux 3.0 26.2.5.13-1

azure linux advisories AZL-64068AZL-64073

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

  • erlang Arch Linux 28.0.1-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2900

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 4.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L
CNA 4.0 4.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Erlang OTP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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